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Washington Times Postage-stamp costs outpace inflationBaltimore Sun, United StatesThe price of a first-class stamp for a one-ounce letter hit 44 cents this week, up from the 42-cent mark reached just a year ago. Over the long and short runs, postage costs have increased substantially faster than general prices. In the last …

CURRAN: Two blondes and a redhead walk into a post office …New Albany Tribune, INI give the post office sales associate who took the application a grade of F. Before going to the Sellersburg post office, I called the US Department of State Passport's 1-800 number to find out what we …

Deutsche Post yesterday pulled out of the running for a stake in the UK’s Royal Mail and instead turned the spotlight on the need to overhaul its own mail delivery business as it races to cut costs to cope with an unprecedented plunge in demand. More: continued here

Royal Mail pensions deficit 'to cost taxpayer £12bn'Telegraph.co.uk, United KingdomThe Government is planning to hide the crippling cost to the taxpayer of taking on Royal Mail's pension deficit, which could be double the published £6bn figure, under proposals to reshape the postal group, a leading pensions expert has warned. … More: …

Rebel Labour peers have failed in their bid to derail Lord Mandelson’s plans to partprivatise the Royal Mail. More: continued here

Man hurt in crash outside Kingston Post OfficeKingston Daily Freeman, NYKingston firefighters, police and ambulance workers gathered at the scene of a one-car accident outside Kingston's Main Post Office at Cornell Street and Smith Avenue Monday morning. Police said David W. Laube, 48, of 16 Hill Top Road, Rhinebeck, … More: …

Macomb mail worker charged in stamp caseDetroit Free Press, United StatesLinda Ann Martin, a special agent for the US Post Office's inspector general, wrote in an affidavit that agents began investigating after reports of missing postage stamp shipments to a postal carrier annex in Clinton Township. … More: continued here

Ministers are willing to cede overall control over the appointment of Royal Mail’s chief executive and other key “operational matters” to a minority shareholder in the postal operator, it emerged on Monday. More: continued here

The government pressed ahead yesterday with its controversial plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail in the face of opposition from Labour MPs and unions, pledging to use money from the sell-off to modernise the business. More: continued here

Three Concerns over eBay's Q1Seeking Alpha, NYeBay (EBAY) filed its first quarter 10-Q at the end of April, and the stock price launched. With two highly lucrative toll-booth businesses—brokered sales and payment services (Paypal)—and an exceedingly low price (briefly selling below $10 per share … More: continued here